UNITED NATIONS — The
UN Security Council will meet on
Tuesday over violence around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site that wounded 170
people at the weekend, diplomatic sources told AFP.
اضافة اعلان
The meeting, called by
China, France, the UAE, Norway, and
Ireland, will be held behind closed doors, and comes after days of violence in
and around Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, sacred to both Muslims and Jews.
The clashes — at a tense time when the Jewish Passover
festival coincides with the Muslim fasting
month of Ramadan — also follow
deadly violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank starting in late March, in
which 36 people have been killed.
Jews are allowed to visit the
Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, known
to Jews as the Temple Mount, but not to pray at the site, the holiest place in
Judaism and third-holiest in Islam.
His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday called on Israel to
"stop all illegal and provocative measures" that drive "further
aggravation."
The Kingdom serves as custodian of holy places in
East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967 and later annexed in a move not
recognized by most of the international community.
Weeks of mounting tensions have seen two recent deadly
attacks by Palestinians in or near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv,
alongside mass arrests by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
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